ST RUTH’S FATAL GAMBLE: THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM 1691 AND THE FALL OF JACOBITE IRELAND

McNALLY (M.)

C066

£29.95

298pp., photos., 6 maps. 2018. After failing to halt the Williamite crossing of the Shannon in the summer of 1691 St.Ruth, running out of room in which to manoeuvre elected to take up a defensive position and invite an enemy attack, occupying Kilcommadan Hill, near the Galway village of Aughrim.